The Lord Strathcarron
Non-affiliated
Member of the House of Lords
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Lord Strathcarron's full title is The Lord Strathcarron. His name is Ian David Patrick Macpherson, and he was excluded from the House of Lords on 29 April 2026.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
162 divisions
70 Content(43.2%)
1 Not-Content(0.6%)
91 didn't vote(56.2%)
2026-02-04
Not-Content
62–295
Not-Content
2026-01-12
Content
201–169
Content
2026-01-05
Content
132–124
Content
Source: lordsvotes-api.parliament.uk. "Result" shows the headline
Content vs Not-Content tally (including tellers). The Lords doesn't
publish a "didn't vote" attendance roll like the Commons, so the
figure above conflates absence with abstention.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, very briefly, I support Amendment 168 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, and of other noble Lords, because it seems so reasonable. Surely there is no harm done if the advertisement is in a licensed premises; is not visible, except from
2026-03-03
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I support the amendments in this group. If there is to be a retail licensing scheme, it needs to be more robust, fairer and more enforceable than currently envisaged. It needs to respect and reward retailers who are already complying with the l
2025-11-20
South Western Railway
I thank the Minister for his reply, and I agree that this has been a disaster for years. However, passenger groups report that since nationalisation, South Western has suffered a 50% increase in cancellations—it is even worse on Monday mornings and Frida
2025-11-20
South Western Railway
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the performance of South Western Railway since nationalisation, and whether they have taken account of its performance in their plans to nationalise other railways.
2025-11-17
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, on the first day of this Committee, there was wide agreement that this Bill was about public health in general and about preventing young people starting to smoke in particular. Amendment 180, against which I shall speak, addresses neither of t
2025-11-11
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, another major difference between mass-produced cigarettes and handmade cigars is the quantities consumed. Desktop research shows that the average cigarette smoker smokes 11 cigarettes a day, whereas figures for cigar smokers are impossible to c
2025-11-11
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, on the first day of this Committee, there was agreement among all noble Lords that the Bill was about public health. The purpose of these amendments, to which I have added my name, is to show that handmade cigars, pipe tobacco and nasal tobacco
2025-10-27
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I declare an interest as a non-executive director of a company, one of the minority shareholders of which is a vape manufacturer.
We all start off on common ground. We all want to discourage young people from starting to smoke. What we are d
2025-07-17
Online Communication Offence Arrests
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Lord, Lord Lebedev, for this debate. I declare an interest as an author and publisher. With the noble Lord’s blessing, I should like to extend the Question from freedom of speech to freedom of expression, as non-crime ha
2025-05-19
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 83, 85, 86 and 88 in my name. I am sure noble Lords will have noticed that, after the Second Reading of this Bill, media reports the next day focused disproportionately on what was reported as the absurdity of employe
2025-04-23
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
My Lords, I declare an interest, in that a minority investor in one of my companies also manufactures vapes, although my concerns for this Bill have nothing to do with vapes but relate to its treatment of cigars and pipes, and the fact that a generationa
2025-03-27
Employment Rights Bill
My Lords, I too welcome the four maiden speakers and congratulate them on their speeches. Meanwhile, like some of us here today, I was in the other place yesterday afternoon listening to the Chancellor’s Statement and her quest for growth. Yet here we ar
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I, too, rise to speak to this amendment, not so much to comment on the design, although I find it meaningless, unimaginative and repetitive, but to comment on the designer, his tainted reputation and the effect that this will have on not just t
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
To reply to the noble Lord, Lord Austin, I was not for a moment suggesting that anybody here, on either side of the argument, is motivated by that. I was reporting on a summary at Second Reading, which was a generalisation. But time is marching on, and I
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
To respond to—
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords, and the Minister in particular—I would like to take up his offer of letting us see a model. That would be a very good idea, because the basic problem behind a lot of our amendments on this side of the argument is a comp
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 17 in my name, which I do not think has been particularly addressed. I reply, in part, to my noble friend Lord Pickles: this tries to stop any ambiguity that might be there, and which I think still is there. The amend
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, my Amendment 8 simply seeks to ensure that the area taken up by the Holocaust memorial and learning centre in Victoria Tower Gardens will not occupy an area any greater than is required, should it go ahead as currently proposed. One thousand fo
2025-03-20
Holocaust Memorial Bill
2025-03-12
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
My Lords, I shall speak to this group of amendments in particular and would argue for the retention of the Bishops as currently constituted. I fully appreciate the arguments advanced by noble Lords supporting the group of amendments and equally the intel
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, I thank everybody who has contributed. This has been a really interesting and, as always, passionate debate, with lots of great opinions on all sides.
I am aware that it has taken us four hours to discuss two groups, and we have not yet got
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
My Lords, the well-known Buxton memorial commemorates the Abolition of Slavery Act 1833 and marks the immense contribution of British parliamentarians who campaigned for abolition, including Wilberforce, Clarkson, Thomas Fowell Buxton and others. It was
2025-03-11
Holocaust Memorial Bill
2025-03-06
Migrants: Indefinite Leave to Remain
I thank the Minister for the reply. Using ONS and OBR data, it is possible to project that over 800,000 recent migrants could apply for ILR over the course of this Parliament. Some 54% of those are on non-work visas, and those on work visas are predomina
2025-03-06
Migrants: Indefinite Leave to Remain
To ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the number of migrants expected to apply for indefinite leave to remain over the course of the Parliament, and of the related cost.
Source: hansard.parliament.uk via hansard-api. Snippets shown
verbatim from the search API; click any debate title for the full record.
Register of Interests · 7 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Chairman, Affable Media Ltd (multimedia production)
registered 2022-03-10 · amended 2025-07-09
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Senior Partner, Unicorn Publishing Group LLP (interest ceased 8 July 2025)
registered 2022-03-10 · amended 2025-10-20
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Chairman, Unicorn Publishing House Ltd
registered 2022-03-10 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (a)
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Affable Media Ltd (multimedia production)
registered 2025-07-09
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Unicorn Publishing Group LLP (interest ceased 8 July 2025)
registered 2022-03-10 · amended 2025-07-09
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Unicorn Publishing House Ltd (interest ceased 8 July 2025)
registered 2022-03-10 · amended 2025-07-09
Category 6: Gifts, benefits and hospitality
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Ticket and hospitality for British Grand Prix received from Silverstone Circuit, 5 July 2025
registered 2025-07-07
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Party history
2025-05-21 → 2026-04-29
Non-affiliated
2022-02-18 → 2025-05-20
Conservative
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
None recorded.
Contact
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APPGs (2026) · 2 active officership(s) · 4 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on Barbados
Country Group
|
Officer | — | 10 | 2024-10-20 |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on the British Virgin Islands
Country Group
|
Vice Chair | — | 9 | 2024-10-15 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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4
of 4 tabled
4 answered(100.0%)
3
departments
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported in 2026.
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primary mover (sortOrder = 1); "Supporter" rows are
members of either House who
backed the bill at introduction. Year is the bill's first-reading
date.
Historic bills (all-time)
0 bills
0 as lead sponsor
0 as supporter
No bills sponsored or supported on record.
Same source as the year-scoped panel above, but unconstrained by
year. The "Sponsored" tag = lead sponsor; "Supported" = backed at
introduction. Sorted newest first.